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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Jdly 1, 1902. 
The acreage 
as follows :— 
of the Company's property is now 
Tea, 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do 
over 5 years old 
Planted Nov. -Dec. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Area under Tea 
Area under Coffee and Cocoa. 
Area under Fuel 
Forest, Patna and Waste 
G 
Total Area 
Wardrop, a member of 
the 
being eli. 
. 3,575 
Board, re- 
jible, offers 
Mr. J . 
tires on thi3 occasion, and, 
himself for re-election. 
Messrs. Deloitte, Dever, Griffiths & Co., the Audi- 
tors, also offer themselves for re-election.— By order, 
J. Alec Kcberts, Secretary. 
London, 5th May, 1902. 
HUNASGERIA TEA COMPANY, LTD. 
riBPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 
To be presented to the seventeenth ordinary general 
meeting of the Company, to be held at No. 5 Dowgate 
Hill, London, on Thursday, the 15th day of May, 1902, 
at 1 o'clock p.m. ^ , , , 
The following accounts are now presented to share 
holders, viz :— . , , 
Balance-sheet made up to 31st December, 1901. 
Piofit and loss account for the year ended 31st 
''^The'te^a'crop amounted 353,030 lb, of which 348,760 
lb were sold in London for £8,873 33 lid, giving an 
average selling price of 610d per lb. Tea was sold in 
Ceylon to the value of £69 3s 3d. 
The expenditure in Ceylon and London, inclusive of 
£331 lis 7d spent on machinery, amounted to 
£9 901 15s 5d, showing a loss of £959 Ss 3d on the 
year's working, and after adding to this the balance 
of £527 6s 3d brought forward from last year, there 
is a sum of £1,486 14s 6d at the debit of profit and 
loss account. 
The area under tea remains at 763 acres, of which 
31 acres are in partial bearing. 
At the commencement of the year under review the 
price of medium quality tea stood at a level con- 
'siderably under the cost of production. 
In these circumstances it became necessary to make 
a change in the system of working, and during the 
nast year, fine plucking has been resorted to, which 
reduced tlie crop to 353,030 lb. against 479,170 lb. se- 
cured during the previous year. 
This step was taken iu conjunction with the majority 
of tea gardens similarly situated in Ceylon and India, 
and the desired result of curtailing supplies has to 
some extent been attained ; a less favourable flushing 
season has also helped to keep supplies within moder- 
ate limits. 
During the last six months of the year the estate 
worked to a profit, which has gone to reduce the 
heavy loss sustained before prices had time to res- 
pond to the effect of shorter supplies, and the new 
year has commenced on a better basis. 
The cultivation of the property has been fully 
maintained, the bashes continue to crop well, and 
the future entirely depends upon market conditions. 
Mr J G Wardrop, a member of the Board retires 
from office on this occasion, and, being eligible offers 
himself for re election. 
Messrs. J and J Sawyer & Co., the Company's 
Auclitors, also offer tbemselvee for re-election, 
THE ANKANDB ESTATE COMPANY 
OF CEYLON, LIMITED, 
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS TO 31ST MARCH, 1902 
Directors :— Messrs. John Aymer, Chairman ; 
H Creasy, W. Rae Sands. Agents and Secre- 
taries -.—Messrs. Baker and Hall. 
ACCEAGE. 
Tea . . . • • • 156 acres 
Cocoa and Liberian Coffee... 104 ,, 
Cardamoms .. .. 95 ,, 
Jungle .. .. .. 197 „ 
Totiil .. 552 acre?. 
The Directors have now to present to Ihe Share- 
holders their Report, Balance Sheet and Profit and 
Loss Account for the year ending 31st March, 1902. 
Interest on the loan of £1,51)0 has been paid to 30th 
June, 1901, but it has since been inj avrear, anl 
depreciation on buildings, viz : R250'93 has been 
written off. 
The DireOtors regret to say that a sum of R2, 104-70 
remains lying to the debit of Profit and Loss Account, 
owing to the poor results of the working account 
which is entirely due to the shortage in crop. 
The Total Crop harvested during the year were 
as follows : — 
ANKANDE. 
Tea lb 55,415 
Cocoa Cwts. 42-7 
GLENUEY. 
Tea Green Leaf .. lb 9,778 
Cocoa Cwts, 46-2-0 
ALTWOOD. 
Cardamoms . . . . lb 2,413 
and a small quantity of minor products were sold. 
Mr, W Rae Sands retires by rotation and is eligi- 
ble for re-election. 
The appointment of an Auditor for 1902 will rest 
with the Meeting. By order of the Directors, 
Bakeh & Hall, 
Colombo, June 2, 1902. Agents and Secretaries. 
PLANTING NOTES, 
KwANGo Rubber.— I note that according to 
Mr. Deghilage, who has been for some time in 
the Western Kwango District of Africa, that rub- 
ber can be collected and sold in the district for 
80 centimes per kilogram. The transport to 
Macadi costs 8 francs for 35 kilos., and tlie rub- 
ber is sold in Europe at 4 francs to 4-SO. Surely 
this trade is worth developing. — India Rubber 
trade Journal, May I2th. 
Tobacco as a Germicide.— The " Lancet," 
replying lo the invitation of "The DailyChroniclc" 
to make some declaration concerning the influence 
of tobacco on microbic life, regrets its inability to 
say anything definite on the point. That which it 
makes clear by a reference to the experiments of 
Tassanari is that when steeped in dense tobacco 
smoke for many hours certain disease germs were 
either scotched or kil'ed. The " Lancet " remarks 
that the conditions of the experiments cannot of 
course be represented in the use of pipe or cigar. 
Yet it is not at all unlikely that a very consider- 
ableeffectmay beproducedon mouth microbes (many 
of which are quite harmless) by tiie ingestion ot 
tobacco smoke. Possibly tlie soil is rendered a less 
fertile one for microbe development ; but microbes 
have an evil habit of breeding rapidly, and in the 
contest it is quite likely the tobacco makes only a 
feeble second after all. As yet I am afraid we 
who smoke cannot present the germicidal power 
of the weed as a strong argument for the anti- 
tibiicco societies to tackle. — Daily Chronicle, 
Maj 8. T 
